US, Poland oppose gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, meets with Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a visit to Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. Tillersonâs two-day visit to Poland was to include discussions of security and other issues and a visit to a memorial site to martyrs of the Warsaw ghetto uprising on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. (Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press) January 27 at 8:23 AM

WARSAW, Poland â" The United States and Poland are taking a strong joint stand against a planned gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany.

They say itâs a Russian scheme to politicize energy and undermine attempts to diversify European fuel supplies and make European countries less depe ndent on Moscow.